The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-03-17
GEFERAL. NEWS NoTEs.
Items OF Interest Gathered nom various
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"Trip 10 EUROPE Tor the benefit OF his health.
The German Reichstag has passed the
5eptennate bill by vote Of 222 to 23.
The process of melting trade dollars has
begun at the assay Office In New York.
Fifty-seven miners who were eutombed
in the Quaxegnon colliery in Belgium have
escaped.
heet OF seven steamers has just arrived
AZ New York, bringing between 1000 and
2, 500 Storage passengers.
The striking printers of Milwaukee have
returned to work on the employers terms,
and promising not to remain in the union.
The Massachusetts Legislature, by a vote
OF II to 8, defeated the woman suffrage
resolution.
Representatives of all New England rail
roads met in convention Thursday to con-
slider the Interstate commerce law.
., Samuel Bonser, of Springfield. Ohio,
tuesday night shot and killed Dora Judd
and then killed himself. Causc-unrcquit-
ed love.
Charles West, 49 Maiden Lane, New
York, has been arrested for swindling per
sons through the mail. lie was known as
the Victor Watch Company.
Mrs. Mary M. Yates, granddaughter of
Chief Justice Marshall, was married TO
Count Eugene Mitkicwiez in Washington,
ID. G.
The strike in the marble yard Of Bowlicr,
TORY IL Co., of Boston, has ended by the
complete surrender of the firm, and 800
laborcrs have resumed work.
Randall, Gin & Shollics, boot and shoe
dealers, Boston, have failed. Liabilities
$50, 900; assets unknown. The failure is
attributed to losses in the Southern trade.
Both branches Of the Maine Legislature
have failed to give the necessary twothirds
vote on the passage Of the amendment to
the Constitution providing for female suf
fragc
Up to last Friday night there had been
filed ic the pension Office 7.T1G applications
for pensions under the Mexican pension
Inv passed late in the last session of Con-
grcss.
Judge McCuc, solicitor of the treasury,
will visit Charleston shortly lIndcr instruIC-
tions from Acting Secretary Fairchild, with
4 view of selecting a site for the new pub
lie building.
The last Alabama Legislature enacted a
law allowing women to hold the office of
Notary Public. The Governor has made
his first appointment under this law in the |
person Of the wife Of State Senator Long |
The dynamite works of Mrs Mary A. |
l?ltm0r, at Bay Chester, on the Sound, near
New York, blew up for the fifth time Mon |
day, killing one man and lcvclling the |
buildings to the ground.
y Berlin dispatch says: Trade returns
Tor January were better than those for the
same month last year. Imports Of Amcri-
can cotton rose from l7G,0 German uuin-
tails to 22O, GAL.
a Los Angeles, Cal, dispatch says that
Tracy Titus, n wcll.known theatrical man.
aScr, died on Saturday night at Sierra
hladrc Villa. lie was at one time husband
OF Alice Oates, who died recently.
Lucy B. Parsons, lecturing negro An
archist, was refused the use of a hall in
Columbus, Ohio. She called on the Mayorto
protest against such action, and became so
abusive that she was locked up.
lnman and Mead Case, young sons of a
Baptist minister at IIawlcy Pa, Quarrclcd
ut their home and drew rcvolvers, and In
man shot his brother Mead inflicting q
mortal wound. lnman is wild with grief
An effort was made to induce the Prcsi-
dent to sign the river and harbor bill after
Congress hat adjourned, but he declined,
as such Il course would have been mcon-
Stitutional
The wheel barrow factory of j. G.. Drcy-
fuS, of New York city, was DESTROYED 6y
fire on Saturday. Loss $780, 900 The
Office Of the New York Weekly was much
damaged by the water. Loss $4,000.
Last weeks issue of the Farmers Reriec
says: Thus far reports from the winter
wheat belt indicate that the crop is cmerg-
ing from winter in a better shape than last
year.
j. Morcland, while working at a saw
mill eight miles from Eufaula Ala. fell in
front of the circular saw. One leg was
sawn of clean, the other badly manglcd
and his body horribly laccratcd. lie died
in thirty minutes.
Frank G. Budd, broker, of New York,
who was brought back from Canada,
charged with dcfrauding III. II. Mallory
publisher of the ChurchmGn, of a large
sum of money, is confined at police head.
quarters.
The public printer has discharged 1OG
employees, many of them regular hands
The discharged employees include men
and women, and are distributed among
various branches Of the office
At Gloucester, Mass, on Sunday, the
cfligy of Capt. Quiglcy, Of the Canadian
cruiser Terror, was found suspended in In,
dependent Hall, with the British union
down. The city marshal cut it down rs
| soon us he discovered it.
Representatives IIcmphll and Dibblc are
looking after the interests Of their constilu-
cniS. llcmphill has called mt the postoflicc
department, and recommended the cstab,
| lishmcnt of mail route from Rock Hill to
GaStOnia.
The overflow of the Mississippi has inun,
dated the track of the Memphis and Little
Rock road from lIopcticld opposite this
city, 90 Madison, Ark, distance Of forty
miles, making travel impracticablc.
There is great excitement at st. John,
Ncb, in financial and commercial circles
over the suspension Of the Maritime Bank.
No particulars can be obtained at present
as everybody seems to have been taken by
surprise.
A special from Yicksburg, Miss, says:
While, n freight train on the Louisville,
New Orleans and Texas railroad was going
south through tunnel Sunday night, two
carloads of cotton caught fire and about 100
bales were burned.
The situation along the Pittsburg division
Of the Baltimore and Ohio road is pract-
cally unchanged. Both sides maintain u
firm front and there is no indication of an
early settlement of the trouble No at